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CHAP. Surinam, diftant from Paramaribo, if we include the 



windings of the river, above one hundred miles ; and as- 

 the lituation is pleafant, 1 prefent the reader with a view 

 of it, in the plate annexed, as alfo of the village, called the 

 Jews Savannaby which is diftant from town, in a itraight 

 line, fomething more than forty, but by water above 

 Hxty Englifh miles. Here the Jews have a beautiful fy- 

 nagogue, and keep their folemn fafts and feftivals ; here 

 they alfo have their capital fchools and feminaries, for at 

 this village reiide fome very refpedable Jewifh families. 

 Thefe people polTefs particular rights and privileges in 

 this colony, with which they were endowed by King 

 Charles the Second, when the fettlement of Surinam was 

 Englifh; and fuch are thefe privileges I never knew Jews 

 to poflefs in any other part of the world whatever. 



From Paramari\^o, or rather from the fortrefs New 

 Amfterdam, the River Surinam, like thofe of Cottica and 

 Comawina, is beautifully bordered with fugar and coffee 

 plantations, as are alfo feveral creeks or fmall rivers that 

 communicate with it ; fuch as the PawJus, the Para, the 

 Cropinay and the Pararac creeks; but above Mount Par- 

 nalTus not a fingle eftate, that may be fo called, is to be 

 found; neither is the river any longer navigable, even 

 for fmall craft, on account of the prodigious rocks, and 

 cafcades or water-falls, with which it is obftrucSted as it 

 winds through exceffively high mountains and an im- 

 penetrable foreft. While therefore they form an enchant- 

 ingly romantic fcene to the eye, thefe natural bulwarks 



prevent 



